Going on this weekend in St Louis Missouri is the 2015 Futaba Nitro Challenge. Myself and several members of the BigSquidRC Bash Crew made it down to the St Louis Dirtburners track on Friday to check things out and we had a blast. If you are in the area please consider dropping by to see some of the best racers [...]

Were you at Axialfest 2015? Did you see Adam and Allyson while you were there? Did they take a picture of your ride? This post is going to have a TON of pics, you have been warned! Coming from two people that have never been to such an event, we didn’t know what to expect going into Cisco Grove. After a [...]

Coming up on August 9th is the first HPI off-road Bash Party of the year. Sorry Americans, the event is being held in Nottingham England, but our European readers should be in for a fantastic time. Participants can expect-> * The entire event is FREE! * A large selection of HPI kits will be on hand for drivers to experience in person * [...]

With this post we bring a wrap to our HobbyTown USA National Convention coverage. The ’15 show was awesome, an extremely well run event with loads of fun for attendees and lots of business opportunities for the manufacturers. Take a look at the pictures below to get a better feel for what we saw at the show and we would [...]

Among our favorite booths at the HobbyTown USA Convention was from Hitec. You know Hitec as a leading producer of high quality servos and they didn’t disappoint at the show. They had a bunch of their new servos on display, plus a number of other new electronics. Some of our notes from the Hitec booth include- * Hitec is celebrating 25 [...]

There was certainly some buzz coming out of the Castle Creations room at the HobbyTown USA Convention because of their newly announced X Series speed controllers. Castle had the new X series XL controller and the Micro X on display, both of which you should start seeing in local hobby shops in the near future. Some news and notes from [...]

Champaign Illinois powerhouse Hobbico always has a large room at the HobbyTown USA convention and 2015 was no different. What was different was the amount of quads/drones on display. A couple of years ago there might have been only one or two, last year there was a few, but this year their booth had dozens of quads at every price [...]

Who is Fire Brand RC? They are the makers of some very trick/trendy rc gear for just about every form of bashing. They are perhaps best known for their drifting gear, but they also carry some very cool wraps and off-road wheels and tires. We spent a great deal of time hanging out in their booth at the HobbyTown USA Convention, [...]

HRP is one of the largest hobby distributors here in the United States and they had a great arrangement of new gear on display at the HobbyTown USA Convention. If your hobby shop sells brands like Savox, Thunder Tiger, Hobbywing, Gmade, or Racer Edge, they are dealing with HRP. What was hot in the HRP Booth? * The item that was [...]

We’ve been attending the HobbyTown USA Convention in Lincoln Nebraska for several years now, and every year we’ve been there, so have the ever friendly crew from Pro-Line Racing. For this year’s show P-L sent out Gerardo and John to show off their latest products and to answer any questions that show goers might have had. Some of the highlights [...]

Sporting a huge room at the ’15 HobbyTown USA Convention was our friends from Horizon Hobby. Ice cold Rockstar Energy Drinks were in abundance (they have a collaboration with them) as were snacks to keep tired convention attendees going. If you haven’t already noticed, Horizon is placing a big emphasis on staying at the front edge of the latest technology. For [...]

The good folks at HPI Racing have long been supporters of the HobbyTown USA National Convention. Over the years, we’ve not only had a geat time just hanging out with them, but we’ve also learned a lot about the industry side of things from them. At this year’s show HPI had 3 very cool new products on display to grab [...]

For the last two days the BigSquidRC Bash Crew has been roaming the halls at the 2015 HobbyTown USA National Convention in Lincoln Nebraska. One of the most important booths at the event was from the Firelands Group. You see, Firelands has multiple different lines ranging from surface to air products, all of which are exclusively available from your local [...]

If you missed it, you can catch part one of the photo’s Right Here. There were so many cool vehicles, we wanted to make sure we got most of them in the posts. For anyone who doesn’t know, the No Limit RC guys put on their amazing World Finals at the Diggers Dungeon compound, home of the Grave Digger Monster [...]

Every year the No Limit RC guys put on their amazing World Finals at the Diggers Dungeon compound, home of the Grave Digger Monster Truck. This year saw about 350 entries, and our own 3DBill was there snapping pictures of some of the awesome vehicles. There are some incredible monster trucks, pullers, and all sorts of other vehicles ready to [...]